PROPOSALS OF PEACE AND ALLIANCE WITH THE STATE FORCES FROM GONGO LUTETE VISIT TO GONGO LUTETE AT HIS CAPITAL, N'GANDU — THE LITTLE PEOPLE OF THE FOREST

On the 19th of July, Gongo Lutete had information conveyed to us that he was sending ambassadors with a large present, hoping to make peace. De Wouters and I received orders to proceed on the way to meet them, and at five o'clock the following morning started up the river in a large canoe. Our canoe was a very good one, of the usual kind used by the Bakuba — the Sankuru water-people — who are not nomadic, but are a fine race of traders and farmers.

The canoe was flat-bottomed, with sides about ten inches high, and tapering to a point fore and aft. The paddles used by these people are about nine feet long, and are